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All funds received by the City for the In-Lieu of Disconnect Fee Program shall be specifically designated to reduce the financial burden on residents of the combined sewer overflow LICE By December 31512020 all commercial and industrial buildings shall have either disconnected or shall have entered the In-Lieu of Disconnect Fee Program. The Department of Public Works shall by December 31ti12017 make available on the City's website a guidance document that will assist commercial building owners in obtaining further information on how to join the Program The guidance document shall also outline how commercial building owners may pay the In-Lieu of Disconnect Fee in installments. (2) An organization established for charitable purposes including but not limited to organizations described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended, and governmental organizations over which the City has authority, which cannot disconnect may. depending,on number of fulltime equivalent employees receive the following discounts: (a) Such organizations with twenty or fewer fulltime equivalent employees shall not be charged to enter the In-lieu of Disconnect Fee Program. (b) Such organizations with more than twenty but fewer than 100 fulltime equivalent employees shall receive a 50%reduction of the fee to enter the In-lieu of Disconnect Fee Program. (3) For-profit businesses with twentv or fewer fulltime equivalent employees which cannot disconnect may. depending on disEounts• wit twenty erfeweFfulltime equ*val@Rten+olGye-es shall receive a 50%reduction of the fee to enter the In-lieu of Disconnect Fee Program. ()Any commercial building owner that was previously issued a downspout disconnection special exemption by the Board of Public Works shall remain exempt and shall not be subject to the In-Lieu of Disconnect Fee. (5) Commercial buildings with sewer discharge meters shall be exempted from the requirement to join the In-Lieu of Disconnect Fee Program. Have a limited exemption whieh shall be stfl�eet to the evmer-(s) of eaeh sueh building filing with the City's Depaftmen4 of Publie Works (DPW) within the first 4ffee (3) year-s of said five (5) year period, a feasibility study and a eos"enefit analysis to eonfinn that eemplianee may east pr-ohibitive due to the building having an intemal drainage system, due to i . sur-faees, or-other-doeumented reasons whieh shall be reviewed by DPW. DPW shall review sa-,-- doettmefAation and meet with the oymer-to determine if there are any other-altematives sueh as fooftep gar-dens anEVer-green r-oofs fof theif building rooftops, W-hieh shOUld be Elesigfied tO lOwef the+ + f the b •la fike poll do and r-eduee the amount of off f e The Fun r v building wA%er-may appeal the deeision of DPW to the Board of Publie Works within ten (10) days of the r PIAI deeision. DPW shall ,Y. nlai., a eempr-ehensive listing Of all sHeh pfopefties by Page 3